Isaac the Armenian

Isaac the Armenian (600-643) was the Byzantine Exarch of Ravenna from 625 to 643, succeeding Eleutherius and preceding Theodore I Calliopas.

Biography
Isaac was born in 600 to the Kamsarakan clan of Armenians, and he was appointed Exarch of Ravenna in 625 AD. In 638, he and Emperor Heraclius' official Maurikios Chartoularios plundered the Lateran Palace after Pope Severinus refused to sign a Monothelite profession of faith, sending some of the treasure back to Heraclitus. When Maurikios again attempted to sack the Lateran, Isaac had him arrested and executed rather than share the treasure with him. In 643, the Lombard king Rothari conquered Liguria and Emilia from the Byzantines, and, during a battle on the Panaro, thousands of Byzantine soldiers were killed in a defeat at the hands of the Lombard invaders. Isaac was among those slain in the battle.